Jus post bellum is the body of international legal norms and rules of international law that applies to a post-conflict situation as it moves to a status of peace. This book provides a detailed legal analysis of all aspects of jus post bellum, and uses case studies to show its relevance to the reality of situations on the ground.

PART 1. FOUNDATION AND CONCEPTIONS OF JUS POST BELLUM; (I) FOUNDATION, CONCEPT, AND FUNCTION; (II) JUS POST BELLUM AND RELATED CONCEPTS; (III) JUS POST BELLUM AND ITS DISCONTENTS; PART 2. RECONCEPTUALISING 'BELLUM' AND 'PAX'; PART 3. DILEMMAS OF THE 'POST'; (I) DILEMMAS OF CLASSIFICATION; (II) INSTITUTIONAL DILEMMAS AND STRATEGIES; PART 4. THE 'JUS' IN JUS POST BELLUM

An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence Provides a comprehensive analysis of the laws and norms that apply to the process of ending war and building peace Systematically examines the merits and pitfalls of jus post bellum, drawing on theoretical inquiry, comparison to different bodies of international law, and key case-studies Critically assesses the practical relevance of the theory of jus post bellum to the actual reality of post-conflict situations

Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at Leiden University and Program Director of the Grotius Centre. He is the author of The Law and Practice of International Territorial Administration: Versailles to Iraq and Beyond. He has published articles on international criminal law and transitional justice in leading international journals (American Journal of International Law, European Journal of International Law, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Harvard International Law Journal), and edited several collections of essays in the field. Jennifer Easterday is a Researcher for the 'Jus Post Bellum' project. She is also an international justice consultant and a Trial Monitor for the Open Society Justice Initiative. She previously worked for International Criminal Law Services, an NGO based in The Hague, on a variety of international criminal law capacity-building projects in domestic jurisdictions in the former Yugoslavia and Africa. She has also worked as a Senior Researcher and Trial Monitor for the UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center, researching and monitoring the Special Court for Sierra Leone trial of Charles Taylor. She has experience at the ICTY and with other international criminal law and human rights NGOs in the United States and Latin America. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and is a member of the California State Bar. Jens Iverson is a Researcher for the 'Jus Post Bellum' project and an attorney specializing in public international law. A member of the California Bar, the Thurston Society, and the Order of the Coif, he received his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of California, Hastings, and his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University. He has worked with the Cambodian Genocide Program, the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court. As the co-founder of a human rights clinic, he helped represent the former Prime Minister of Haiti in a successful petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that ultimately resulted in a landmark ruling requiring Haitian prison reform. He has practiced at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on both the Popovic et al and Prlic et al cases.

An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence Provides a comprehensive analysis of the laws and norms that apply to the process of ending war and building peace Systematically examines the merits and pitfalls of jus post bellum, drawing on theoretical inquiry, comparison to different bodies of international law, and key case-studies Critically assesses the practical relevance of the theory of jus post bellum to the actual reality of post-conflict situations